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It has been shown for many languages that words are lengthened in phrase-final position. However, it is not quite clear whether this lengthening is caused more by the presence of a boundary or by the presence of a pause. The present paper aims to answer this question by analysing the duration of stressed and post-stressed vowels in words occurring at the beginning/middle vs. end of intonational phrase, and with vs. without a following pause. In addition, the present study attempts to explain how lengthening is distributed among the the final word’s segments, especially in cases when the boundary is not marked by a pause.
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Kachkovskaia, T. (2014). Phrase-Final Lengthening in Russian: Pre-boundary or Pre-pausal?. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Delic, V. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8773. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11581-8_44
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